Hartland Holiday Variety Show 2022
The show is sponsored by HCA. ( Hartland Community Arts . )
Each year they produce the Hartland Holiday Show.
This was the first " live" event since 2019.
It took place on Sat. DEC 3rd at Damon Hall in front of a full house of community members.
This year's holiday show was the most diverse community-engaged event in it's history.
The show was comprised of poets, narrators, soloists, musicians, actors, sketch artists and anchored by the Hartland Holiday Chorus.
Piano & Percussion: Pre-show music
-Janet L. Hewes & Jim Dreisch
Piano: “Allemande from French Suite No. 4 in E-flat major”
by J.S. Bach
-Alison Cheroff
Poem: “The Sunne Rising” by John Donne
-Jeffrey Hamelman
Hurdy-gurdy: “Branle de l’Official” by Toinot Arbeau (16th c.)
-Karen Hansen
Story: “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”
by Jean Shepherd
- Daniel Patterson
Song w/ Piano: “He Shall Feed His Flock” from “Messiah”
by G.F. Handel
-Chiho Kaneko & Alison Cheroff
Chorus:
“Sussex Carol” (a traditional English carol; arr. Emily Crocker))
“Coventry Carol” (a traditional English carol; Robert Croo)
“The Holly and the Ivy” (a traditional English carol)
“Carols around (and a round)” arr. Carl J. Nygard, Jr.
-Hartland Holiday Choir *
Sing-along: “Silent Night” *
Song: “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”
by Merle Travis and Tex Williams
- Peter Luquer
Poem: “Winter Song”
- Robert Foote
Guitar: “Lorena” by H. D. L. Webster
- Michael Wilson
Theatrical Sketch: “Holiday Hope” by RJ Crowley
-Hartland Holiday Players *
Songs with Piano:
“Must the Winter Come so Soon” by Samuel Barber
“O Holy Night” by Adolphe Charles Adam
-Emma Caffrey & Pierre Fournier
Sing-along: “Joy to the World”
